AP - The White House said Wednesday a revised policy on granting security clearances to gays and lesbians does not reflect a change in how the government will treat sexual orientation.

AP - Celebratory extravaganzas are normally a ritual when a star athlete comes to a new team.

AP - Celebratory extravaganzas are normally a ritual when a star athlete comes to a new team. Nick Saban wanted no such spectacle for Daunte Culpepper.

AP - The White House said Wednesday a revised policy on granting security clearances to gays and lesbians does not reflect a change in how the government will treat sexual orientation. But several Democrats denounced the new rules.

AP - Two star quarterbacks found new homes on Tuesday and two talented but troublesome receivers went on the open market.

AP - Daunte Culpepper's seven up-and-down seasons in Minnesota came to an end Tuesday.

Hector Duarte Jr. - AHN Staff Reporter Seattle, WA (AHN) – Intel says it will move forward with the unveiling of its long-range Internet access. Cards granting access to Wimax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) are expected to be out by this year. Wimax is dubbed the...

Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Gaza (AHN) - A newly elected Palestinian parliament revokes legislation granting expanded powers to Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas. The Hamas-led legislature struck out against Abbas' Fatah party by limiting his powers, and effectively...

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush gave no sign on Saturday that he would support granting Pakistan the same kind of nuclear agreement just reached with India.

Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A new bill is being proposed in the U.S. Senate which would ban Internet service providers (ISPs) from granting preferential treatment in data transfers to companies that pay more. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), hopes the bill...

The Christian Science Monitor - Given all that glitters in Balochistan, it's no wonder Pakistan places the province at the center of its economic and strategic ambitions: It boasts rich deposits of gas, coal, and copper; a coastline granting access to Persian Gulf trade; and a transit zone for two proposed multibillion-dollar, natural-gas pipelines, one from Iran and one from Turkmenistan.

Reuters - South Dakota became the first U.S. state to pass a law banning abortion in virtually all cases, with the intention of forcing the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973 decision legalizing the procedure.

AFP - A total of 3,648 gay and lesbian couples in England and Wales entered legal unions in the first six weeks under a new law granting them marriage-like rights, government figures showed.

Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of a small congregation in New Mexico, granting the use of hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God. In their first religious freedom...

AP - The government won't wait for bird flu to hit U.S. shores before granting liability protections to vaccine manufacturers and others that make products needed to battle a pandemic.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the Public Patent Foundation's ("PUBPAT's") request for a reexamination of the patent Forgent Networks Inc. is widely asserting against the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) international standard for the electronic sharing of photo-quality images. In its Order granting PUBPAT's request, the Patent Office found that PUBPAT raised "a substantial new question of patentability" regarding every claim of the patent, U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 (the '672 Patent). [PRWEB Feb 2, 2006]